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“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman
“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance,” wrote John D. Rockefeller.
"I do not think there is any other quality so essentialto success of any kindas the quality of preservance,".."
“A passionate desire and an unwearied will can perform impossibilities or what may seem to be such to the cold, timid, and feeble,” wrote the famous English doctor Sir James Simpson.
“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.”
In his own words, the most slavish thing was to “luxuriate,” whereas the most royal thing was to “labor.”
Resistance has a fatal weakness, though. We can turn the tables on it. It can be defeated.
